STATE  NORMAL  SCHOOL 

MAYVILLE,  NORTH  DAKOTA 

THE  BI-MONTHLY 

BULLETIN 


VOL.  I OCTOBER,  1913  NO.  6 


ILLUSTRATED  DESCRIPTION 

' OF  THE 

M0D[L  RURAL  SCHOOL  BUILDING 

AT  THE 

MAYVILLE  NORMAL  SCHOOL 


THE  WINTER  TERM  BEGINS  TUESDAY,  JAN.  6,  1914 


Published  in  February,  April,  June,  August,  October,  and  December  by  the  State 
Normal  School  at  Mayville,  N.  D.,  and  entered  at  the  Mayville  Postoffice  November  15, 
1912,  as  second  class  matter  under  act  of  August  24,  1912. 


IMPORTANT  DATES  AND  EVENTS 


1913 

The  Fall  Term  began  Tuesday,  September  30 

The  Fall  Term  ends Thursday,  December  18 


1914 


The  Winter  Term  begins  .. 

The  Winter  Term  ends  

The  Spring  Term  begins 

The  Spring  Term  ends  

The  Summer  School  begins 
The  Summer  School  ends  ... 


...Tuesday,  January  6 
....Thursday,  March  26 

Tuesday,  April  7 

Thursday,  June  25 

Thursday,  July  2 

.Wednesday,  August  12 


COMMENCEMENT  WEEK 


Baccalaureate  Service  Sunday  Evening,  June  21 

Senior  Chapel  Monday  Morning,  June  22 

Commencement  Party  Monday  Evening,  June  22 

Senior  Class  Exercises  Tuesday  Evening,  June  23 

Senior  Class  Picnic  Wednesday,  June  24 

Recital  and  Reception  to  the  Senior  Class,.... Wednesday  Evening,  June  24 

Outdoor  Sports  Thursday  Afternoon,  June  25 

Alumni  Banquet  Thursday  Afternoon,  June  25 

Commencement  Exercises  Thursday  Evening,  June  25 


HOLIDAYS 

General  Election  and  Thanksgiving  Days 
Eighteen  days  at  Christmas  and  New  Year’s 
Lincoln’s  birthday 

Eleven  days  between  the  Winter  and  Spring  Terms 


MODEL  RURAL  SCHOOL  BUILDING 

State  Normal  School.  Mayville,  N.  D. 


SIDE  ELEVATION 


PUEPOSE 

In  its  new  model  rural  school  building,  Avhich  has  just  been 
completed,  the  Mayville  Normal  School  tries  to  illustrate  in  all 
essential  respects,  taking  into  account  the  modern  practical  de- 
mands upon  education,  the  best  that  is  practicable  and  feasible  in 
a typical,  well-to-do  country  locality  in  the  way  of  a building  for 
either  an  ungraded,  one-teacher  school  or  a partly  graded  school 
of  about  two  to  three  teachers,  the  latter  of  which  will  be,  for  a 
long  time  to  come,  the  most  common  type  of  consolidated  rural 
school. 


COST 

The  total  cost,  without  any  equipment,  has  been  four  thousand 
dollars,  somewhat  more  than  it  would  have  been,  if  the  building 
could  have  been  put  up  at  a time  of  the  year  when  labor  was  not 
scarcest  and  wages  highest. 

If  communities  should  sometimes  feel  that  in  either  the  con- 
struction of  new  buildings  or  the  modification  of  old  ones,  they 
cannot  afford  to  follow  closely  the  plans  of  this  one,  they  can,  at 
least,  incorporate  some  of  its  good  features. 

DIMENSIONS 

The  ground  dimensions,  exclusive  of  porch  and  rear  entrance, 
are  38  ft.  x 34  ft.  and  twenty  to  twenty-four  pupils  are  easily 


accommodated.  The  size  of  the  building  can  be  varied,  without 
harm  to  the  general  plan,  to  suit  the  special  needs  of  different 
localities. 


BASEMENT 

It  is  much  needed  for  the  furnace  and  fuel,  storage,  and  addi- 
tional space  for  school  activities  including  play  during  inclement 
weather. 


MAIN  FLOOR 

The  plan  of  this  floor  is  the  most  novel  feature  of  the  build- 
ing. It  is  of  vital  importance  and  should  not  be  modified  without 
careful  consideration.  The  large  cased-openings  between  the 
sections  for  manual  training,  domestic  science,  and  agriculture 
and  the  main  space  for  the  seats  and  desks,  permit  free  entrance 
of  light  and  an  almost  unbroken  view  of  the  entire  floor  from  any 
point  of  view. 


ATTIC 

The  space  here  is  used  for  storage  and  contains  the  ventila- 
tion pipes  running  from  the  toilet-rooms  to  the  vent  at  the  side 
of  the  smoke-stack.  Entrance  is  through  a ceiling  opening  in  the 
hallway. 


LUMBER 

This  is  a frame  building  and  the  dimension  lumber  used  in  its 
construction  is  western  fir  and  eastern  white  pine.  The  main 
floor  is  of  hard  maple. 


PLASTERING 

There  are  two  coats — the  first  of  wood-fiber  on  white  pine 
lath  and  the  second  of  adamant  plaster  with  float  finish. 

TINTING 

The  interior  walls  up  to  the  picture  moulding  and  outside  of 
the  blackboards  are  tinted  a light  green  and  the  ceiling,  and  the 
walls  above  the  picture  moulding,  a cream. 

PAINTING 

On  the  outside  there  are  two  coats  of  light  cream  with  ivory- 
white  trimmings,  and  the  roof  is  stained  a moss  green.  On  the 
inside  all  finish  wood-work  has  one  coat  of  shellac  filler  and  two 


coats  of  hard  varnish  rubbed  down  with  pumice  stone  and  oil  to 
a smooth,  dull  finish.  The  floor  has  a coat  of  raw  linseed  oil  and 
will  be  kept  in  good  sanitary  condition  by  occasional  scrubbing 
and  application  of  light,  sanitary  oil-dressing. 

BLACKBOARDS 

They  cover  almost  all  available  space  and  are  made  of  a coat 
of  wood-fiber  on  galvanized  steel  rib  lath,  a coat  of  adamant  plas- 
ter with  float-finish,  and  a coat  of  adamant,^  black  putty  carefully 
troweled  to  a smooth  surface. 

HEATING  AND  VENTILATION 

They  are  by  means  of  a hot-air  furnace  in  the  basement.  Air 
inlets  and  outlets,  except  the  large,  fresh-air  inlet  from  out- 
of-doors  Vhich  is  under  the  porch  and  leads  beneath  the  basement 
floor  to  the  furnace,  are  indicated  on  the  main  floor  plan.  The 
furnace  draught  is  automatically  controlled  by  a thermostat,  and 
the  circulation  of  air  is  quickened  by  a vent  at  the  side  of  the 
smoke-stack.  The  closets  in  the  toilet-rooms  are  connected  through 
the  attic  with  this  vent. 


PLUMBING 

This  is  reduced  to  the  minimum  on  account  of  the  danger  from 
freezing  when,  during  cold  weather,  the  school  is  not  in  session 
and  consists  only  of  the  pumps  and  sinks  in  the  tiolet-rooms  and 
laboratories  and  the  necessary  connecting  pipes. 

SEWAGE  AND  GARBAGE 

Sanitary  dry  closets  are  used  in  toilet-rooms  and  are 
emptied  when  necessary  on  the  fields  near  by.  Waste  water 
from  the  sinks  goes  into  a concealed,  disinfected,  absorbent  basin 
at  the  side  of  the  building.  All  solids  that  will  burn  are  thrown 
into  the  furnace,  and  any  others  are  accumulated  and  frequently 
taken  to  a properly  selected  dump  ground  where  they  are  buried. 

CISTERN 

This  is  divided  into  three  parts — the  two  filters  which  receive 
water  from  different  parts  of  the  roof  and  the  central  part,  or 
tank,  from  which  water  is  pumped  for  drinking,  and  laboratory, 
and  toilet  purposes. 


WINDOWS 

All  on  the  main  floor,  except  those  in  the  toilet-rooms  have 
double  sets  of  double-hung  sash,  thus  aiding  ventilation  and  mak- 
ing detachable  storm-windows  unnecessary.  All  windows  have 
detachable  fly-screens. 


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EVENING  LIGHT  AND  FUEL 


A gas  system  involving  the  use  of  tanks  for  storing  gas  se- 
cured ready-made  is  used  for  evening  light  and  laboratory  pur- 
poses. Both  wood  and  coal  (hard  or  soft)  are  used  in  the  house- 
hold range  in  the  domestic  science  section.  The  furnace  gives  the 
best  results  with  the  use  of  hard  coal  of  the’ ‘‘stove  coal’’  size. 

BELL 

Instead  of  the  conventional  bell  in  a cupola,  there  is  an  electric 
gong  on  the  rear,  outside  wall  just  under  the  cornice  and  con- 
trolled by  dry  batteries  and  a push-button  on  the  inside. 


